Open Your Heart to Gardening with Kandy Shepherd
In my new release, The Tycoon’s Christmas Dating Deal, the magnificent gardens of Longfield Manor,
the ancestral home of my hero Oliver are featured quite often. Even at Christmas time, which is winter
in England, the gardens have a stark glory. Then there is the medieval walled garden, a favourite of
heroine Marissa. The walled garden in winter plays a significant part in Oliver and Marissa’s love store,
in spring it—I have to stop there for fear of a spoiler!
I don’t have a medieval walled garden, but I do have a pretty, cottage-style garden at our little farm in
the Blue Mountains of NSW, Australia. I love to spend time gardening there. My garden is at its best in
Spring which DownUnder is right now. Here, I’m sharing some favourite photos of my October garden
with snowballs, iris, aquilegia and tulips the stars. November will be rose time!
My husband laid the paths over several winters
We love this snowball tree
Tulips like the cold winter
Bearded iris with feline photo-bomber Alfie
Bird bath adds colour
The aquilegias are all self-sown
Friendly visitors, Australian King Parrots
Flowering cherry
Kandy Shepherd is a best-selling, award-winning author of contemporary romance. Her heartfelt, passionate stories are set in exciting locations around the world and are published in multiple languages. Kandy believes in love-at-first-sight and real-life romance—she and her husband of many years decided to spend their lives together after three days! She loves it when readers tell her that her books make them laugh and make them cry. Kandy lives near Sydney, Australia with her husband and numerous four-legged friends.
HIS CANDY CANE CONTRACT
The loss of her parents makes working the holidays difficult for event planner Marissa. But planning a party for tycoon Oliver is an offer she can’t refuse. The problem? Oliver—her childhood crush!—needs her to be his fake date… Following his beloved grandfather’s passing, Oliver’s dedicated to giving their family manor the farewell it deserves. But his grieving grandmother is convinced that Marissa is his girlfriend, and why shatter her dreams? Yet as the festivities ramp up, the terms of their deal blur. Is their chemistry real or just a trick of the twinkle lights?
